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Dr. Karp wrote:
"Additionally, some colicky babies need to be vigorously
stimulated for many hours at a time and swings can help provide much of that
soothing, rhythmic stimulation without driving a mother past the point of
exhaustion."

I do appreciate your discussion on this list, but I want to address the above comment. The situation you describe is completely. Babies who require this kind of vestibular stimuation are indeed exhausting for parents. The very simple solution in almost all cases is chiropractic or cranial-sacral therapy. These babies become whole new people with treatment. The real tragedy of modern obstetrics is the lack of disgust we have for the brutality (both physical and emotional) that is routinely inflicted on human infants in birth and in the postpartum period.

IMO, anyone involved in working with parents after birth should be eduacating parents about healing these traumas (which, of course, requires that they themselves be educated), rather than in finding ways to cope, while these dependent beings are forced to integrate their trauma, perhaps for the rest of their lives. I would very much like to see the video that you describe, but more than that, I would like you to see the transformation that takes place in families when babies are allowed to release the trauma that causes them to desperately seek their own state of organization, among completely oblivious adults. How happy can these babies really be?
Jennifer Tow, IBCLC, CT, USA

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